How to Know What You Know (1)

How do you know what you know? Knowing this is one of the first steps in knowledge management.

How to Know What You Know (3)

...In many situations we act without even knowing why we act the way we do...This is no longer desirable when your organization is changing too often...Knowledge Management is (amongst other aspects) about making the “private” knowledge “publicly” available...So that you can bridge the Knowledge Gap...But your organization was not used to this. Different teams applied different principles...And now what? How to address this new set of principles so that knowledge management is adopted in the primary process?

A Monster Of A Leadership Challenge: The Creature That Ate Your Career

Summary: All leaders experience fear, failure and self-doubt many times throughout their careers. The author combines the three into one creature he calls Ghidora. Ghidora is the name of the three-headed movie monster that engaged Godzilla in a titanic struggle. You're not a Godzilla, of course, but you can go a long way in defeating this beast through tips provided here.

Apathy and Cynicism Zap Our Spirit

As the years slide by, a growing number of people don't really live, they merely exist – trapped in their lives of quiet desperation. Just getting by is as dangerous as resting in the snow on a frigid winter night; our passion and spirit dozes off and dies in our sleep.

The Three Sides of The Change Box - And The Contents of The Box

If the three sides of the box are about; the fundaments of the change, the organizational scope and the depth of the change or the impact, than there is still something missing. It is not an important part. In fact, for managing change you should not give it too much attention...

How to Help Someone Else Get Organized - Without the Headaches

Organizing others is not an obvious task, even if you are organized yourself. This article will give you: tips on how to identify if the person you are thinking of it truly disorganized or if it is an appearance issue, and how to address this; what to do and not to do if the person is truly disorganized; resources to help you proceeed.

Learning to Run the Lean Marathon

Organisations looking to implement change that is sustainable in the medium to long term need to have three key attributes to be successful. Based on research undertaken with dozens of businesses, this article explores the key factors that can make your improvement programme (including Lean) successful.

The People Factor: Collaborative Decision-Making

We all generally get the 'doing' just fine: we know how to introduce strategic initiatives, how to begin the implementation process, how to offer our people 'change management' programs so the new systems (or whatever) are up on time and do what they are supposed to do. But how do we help our people adjust, and do a competent job, when we are asking them to simultaneously work with new people, new technology, new vocabularies, new outcomes, and new job descriptions – and aren't teaching them how to juggle all of that while maintaining their daily job requirements?

The New Feudal Society: How to Prosper in the Coming Age of Poverty and Privilege

Are we are entering a New Feudal Society? As an example of what is occuring in our national economy, median househould income (adjusted for inflation) topped-out in 1999 and has been declining ever since. It is now 3.8% below the 1999 peak. This is unheard of in the post World War II era. This is in addition to substantial rising benefit costs to employees. In this environment the new lords will be those people who can quickly discern, adapt to,and exploit the unpredictable movement in the turbulent flow of life

Aligning Your Company With Your Brand for Profit

If your business provides products and services to other businesses, you can achieve the benefits of a strong brand identity in customer loyalty, buying preferences, and referrals to other customers. However, the relationship with your customer is far more complex than when compared with consumer product relationships. Business to business service companies must innovate above and beyond just satisfying the client's transactional needs to create positive brand loyalty over time.

Performance Appraisal System

Learn the importance of an effective performance appraisal system.

Fear of Change Can Hurt Your Business

Internet marketer looking for sales? Stop focusing on sales. Start focusing on people.

Business Golf: The Questions Business People Should Ask Themselves

To be successful into today’s economy, businesses need to find better ways to secure their customer and employee base. Business Golf provides the vehicle business should use to improve upon their business image and facilitate the changes they need to make to build solid business relationships.